Grishnakh

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by Grishnakh 10y ago
A way of using nuclear power to directly generate electricity, without going through a thermal cycle first. Similar to how photovoltaics work: instead of capturing heat from sunlight and going through a Carnot cycle engine to generate elec
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Perhaps it could be turned on and off as needed: lose a finger in an accident, and take a drug to turn regeneration on. Grow your finger back in a week, and then take another drug (or stop taking the first drug) to go back to normal.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I don't know of any languages that don't have a Latinized written form: Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, etc. all have Latinized forms.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I wonder if part of the deal was house-arrest for the surgeon. Lots of (usually lesser) crimes these days are being punished with house arrest to save money because prisons are so expensive (and also do absolutely nothing to rehabilitate p
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's the same thing. There is no OS I'm aware of that has separate versions for "laptops" and "desktops"; a laptop IS a "desktop" these days, as opposed to a "mobile device" running a mob
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>That's not a negative, especially for anyone who makes their living selling software. So you think free things should be banned so that leaches who want to make money selling things can do so? How idiotic. If I'd like to make
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
So are dildos, but that doesn't mean they need to be made safe for children. These toys were clearly advertised as being for adults only.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
When I get into a conversation about Free software being better than proprietary software, I focus on real problems with modern proprietary software that average users have these days, mainly with operating systems. For instance, lots of p
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
What your dad got is an IOL: intraocular lens. These things are pretty amazing these days; they can correct myopia and astigmatism, eliminate cataracts, and eliminate the need for reading glasses too because the new lens is focus-able (in
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Those risk numbers aren't really valid for everyone, for all activities. The steps thing, for instance, is BS for most people; steps are a serious danger, of course, to elderly people, which is why the mortality number is so high for
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
My vision is only slightly nearsighted, so I'm certainly not a candidate for LASIK (or PRK). But I did try getting married; definitely one of the worst decisions I ever made in my life. Luckily there weren't any kids involved. Acc
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
It sounds like a totally hipster thing to do. Completely pointless and idiotic.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's why they invented "safety glasses". They're specifically designed to protect against stuff like that, probably better than your expensive corrective lenses, and they're dirt cheap. They're required wea
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Depends on the glasses. These days, I always ride with glasses, but they're cheap safety glasses, not corrective lenses of any kind. Safety glasses are made specifically to protect your eyes from flying debris, so theoretically they&
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Not specifically, just shopping.google.com. I try to check there if I don't think the prices at my normal outlets are good enough. For instance, I needed some bags for my vacuum cleaner a while ago, and they were too high at both the
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
No, it wouldn't. At least it wouldn't be any more stupid and ridiculous than a patent for exercising a cat with a laser pointer. http://www.google.com/patents/US5443036 http://patft.uspto.gov&#x2F
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Here in the US, "Italian X" or "French Y" just means that's the style. There's plenty of space on most labels to indicate a country of origin, and that's exactly what they do: foods made in Italy clearly
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Yep, that's why for a lot of things like that, I try to buy it in bulk from Costco or someplace online.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I'll also add that with an electric guitar, it's totally normal to practice without amplification. If you're playing non-distorted parts, and your room is quiet, and you're not totally deaf, an unamplified electric guit
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
(I typed a reply to this but it doesn't seem to have been saved....) What the heck are you doing with your WiFi gear to have these problems? I've used all kinds of cheap-o routers over the years, and never had problems with them
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Yeah, that's it, sorry. I don't normally access it at work and my web browser at home just auto-completes the name for me.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
A guitar doesn't take up much physical space, but if you want to play with amplification, the noise issue does become a big factor. It is possible, however, to play with headphones, so that your neighbors won't hear you at all.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I have the answer for you: songsster.com It's free, it's like Wikipedia in that anyone can edit it (so crappy transcriptions get replaced eventually by better ones), it even plays the song for you. The only bad thing is that it u
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>That's the bean-counter mindset that ruins companies. I was laid off from a semiconductor company years ago because the product we were supporting was aging, and their projections for the successor product did not show a 40+% profi
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
You're doing it wrong. Apple wants you to just sync with iCloud; if you want to do things differently than how Apple wants you to do things, then you're not a very good Apple customer. You need to stop trying to think different.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>Apple can charge outrageous prices for their products, and people love them despite/because of that. Can't understand why they'd stop making monitors. My guess is that there's just not enough profit in it. Monitors
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>but I really wonder what Apple's strategy is going forward, because its clear that they've slowed down or stopped development on everything other than their phones/pads and the occasional laptop. Their strategy is simple
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
To expand on this a bit, I also find these Meetup hikes great for learning about trails in my area I otherwise probably wouldn't know about, so I can go back to them on my own later or with a friend or date. Also there's a lot of
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
This "left vs right" stuff is all a distraction and wrong anyway. The major media outlets definitely are not right-wing biased: just look at Washington Post, NYTimes, etc. What they are is biased towards the establishment. This
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I don't see how that's convincing at all. To you and me who actually know a little bit about how science is supposed to work, sure. But to some Jane Doe who never took any science classes in college and has no idea what "pe

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